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how falleth it out then that there is such a continual falling •ut amongest them that followed after in diversities of opinion and judgement about that ⟨image 109⟩transubstantiation, which some of them do stoutly maintain, some do utterly deny it: some do by conjecture think that others will not grant unto: some others have supposed, some do so deliver out that the substance of bread & wine doth remain.¹ Lombard himself doth think that there is a certain interchange, but what manner of interchange that is, whether formal, or substantial or of some other fashion, he dareth not of himself determine any certainty.² Likewise Gabriel Biel sticking fast in the same quavemyre unable too unwelde him self clean from out the same, is fain at the length too set down by a plain denial, that in the whole Canonical scriptures can not possibly be found in express words, whether this transubstantiation doth begin by interchanging of any somewhat into the body, or do without interchanging begin too be the body with the bread: the substance and accidents of bread remaining still. What shall we say to this, that even by the testimony of Pope Innocent the third his own mouth, were some persons known that did affirm, that as the very accidents of bread did remain after consecration, so also did the very substance of bread remain withal. Whereby appeareth manifestly that before that late council of Lateran, was no certain doctrine established touching transubstantiation. To the like effect writeth Nicholas Cusanus. ³Some of the ancient fathers, sayeth he, are found too have been of this mind, that the bread is not transubstantiated, but is invested with a certain substaū •e of more high valour.

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